Notices tagged with feminism, page 2

Leslie Knope, Liz Lemon, and the Feminist Lessons of NBC's 'Parks and Recreation' - Newsweek

• 30rock
• feminism
• leslieknope
• lizlemon
• meta
• parksandrecreation
• tv

At the end of the day, Leslie realizes that she doesn't need to compete with "Liz Lemonism," and she's not interested in besting Liz, shaming Liz, or proving Liz wrong. Instead, Leslie wants for Liz exactly what Liz wants for Liz: the freedom and confidence make choices, the ability to command respect, and the opportunity to achieve all her goals. Because Leslie Knope, overambitious dreamer that she is, believes that all women deserve those same advantages.

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_lounge/1083759.html

• books
• fantasy
• feminism
• recs

It's pretty easy to come up with awesome women in YA fiction and Urban Fantasy, but some of us like swords and castles, and what then? So what I'm really looking to build here is a list of books that: 1. Loosely fall under the category of "high fantasy" or "epic fantasy" 2. Are written for adult audiences 3. Do not feature titillating rape scenes, headbanging misogyny, women as cardboard sex objects, etc. After all, most books mentioned under "feminist fantasy" are YA (Tamora Pierce, Robin McKinley, Garth Nix) and not everyone likes YA.

Health Care Reform Is a Woman's Issue - NYTimes.com

• feminism
• healthcare
• reform
• sexism

Last week Michelle Obama gave a powerful speech explaining why health insurance reform was a woman’s issue. Her arguments were subsequently dramatized by a telling exchange between Senator John Kyl, a Republican from Arizona, and Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from Michigan, last Friday in a Senate Finance Committee meeting. Senator Kyl articulated the view that the federal government should not tell private health insurance companies what benefits they should offer. For instance, he does not think he should be required to pay premiums to help finance maternity costs, since he has never needed maternity care. As Senator Stabenow calmly observed, “I think your mom did.”

Tiger Beatdown › Running Toward the Gunshots: A Few Words About Joan of Arc

• catholicism
• feminism
• history

But what a lot of people don’t realize – what I didn’t realize, until I read up on it – is that they didn’t actually kill her for heresy. Her answers, when they tried to trip her up and make her say or confess something heretical, were typically-yet-shockingly smart and charismatic and convincing

bookshop: Bad Romance (or, YA & Rape Culture)

• books
• bookshop
• exp
• feminism
• meta
• nf

Hush, Hush is the story of a Bad Romance: quite literally, the heroine is caught in a bad romance with a stalker who shows up, will not leave her alone, refuses to leave her life, and tries to kill her. All of this is made acceptable by the fact that he's hot.

The House GOP's Plan to Redefine Rape | Mother Jones

• abortion
• conservative
• feminism
• health
• politics
• rape
• republicans
• women'srights

Rape is only really rape if it involves force. So says the new House Republican majority as it now moves to change abortion law.

If audiences don’t want women as leads, why did Aliens succeed? : The Hathor Legacy

• exp
• feminism
• meta
• movies
• nf

Just a Baker Street Muse - Reducing Your Risk of Being Accused of Rape

• exp
• feminism
• nf

Dudes to TSA: Don't Touch that Junk! | Mother Jones

• feminism
• groping
• security
• securitytheater
• sexism
• travel
• tsa

It's great to see these men taking a stand against what some have deemed TSA-sanctioned sexual assault, but I have to wonder why their indignation was so long in the making. For years, women have complained about agents copping a feel: in 2004 (when the TSA first experimented with gropey pat-downs), there were already hundreds of women who'd complained about the TSA's invasive procedures. But now that a bunch of guys are calling foul, the media is suddenly paying attention and people are outraged. Tyner's story went viral, but what about the stories of women—and children—that've stayed relatively quiet? ... The TSA tried out a touchy-feely policy once before, back in '04, that was recalled due to public outrage and the implementation of whole-body scanners. So why did the TSA think that people would be any more accepting of those same pat-downs just a few years later? Actually, if it hadn't been for the critical mass of angry dudes, they might just have gotten away with it.

Rules for Anchorites - The Why of Fry

• fail
• feminism
• sexuality
• stephenfry

So a few days ago, Stephen Fry was quoted in a small magazine as saying some impressively awful things about women, namely: "If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas. Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking: 'God, I've got to get my f———- rocks off', or they'd go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush." // And since I am really just sad about Stephen Fry, who I thought was an ally and had quite warm feelings about, rather than angry, I thought I'd lay it out here--why I am not crawling around a heath looking for a lay. The straight men prowling the heath are not usually looking for consenting women.

marina: The more things change

• exp
• fandom
• feminism
• meta
• nf
• race

I've seen people say they feel like social issues are only a concern in their little corner of fandom, and they feel this does not reflect or affect the majority. I've been in online fandom for close to 12 years, and the little corner of social justice issues that I find myself in today did not exist 5-7 years ago. It's not that people weren't doing activism or speaking out about issues, not at all, but the kind of infrastructure, widespread support and awareness there is right now in fandom is very, very new. It's still a very small group, it's still restricted to certain areas, but the fact is, it didn't exist until recently, and with every year it's become more accepted and widespread, so I don't know why anyone would think it wasn't making a difference.

The Chronicle - White Feminist Fandom And Why I'm Over It

• activism
• feminism
• racism

hradzka | the Bechdel Test: mechanical approaches

• exp
• fandom
• feminism
• hradzka
• meta
• nf
• writing

There are a number of issues involved in why a lot of properties fail the Bechdel Test, but on the mechanical front I think two major issues are 1) Stock Roles and 2) Need for Contrast.

seperis | t minus less than forty eight hours until the time of darkness and surgery

• fandom
• feminism
• tech

Yesterday I had a fun ride with a guy who owns his own cab service and we spent most of the ride talking about computers, since he was one of Michael Dell's first fifty employees back in the day they bought chassis from IBM and it was weird. I had my laptop and was trying to connect to my server to do a quick update using my phone and we talked about pretty much everything. He was also kind enough to wait until near the end of the ride to point out how rare it is for women to be interested in computers and offered to introduce me to one of the Dell engineers and how did I learn so much about them anyway? And why?

cme | In which everything takes rather longer than I thought

• feminism
• geekery
• geekfeminism
• opensource

(Because Azz delicioused it and reminded me that I wanted this tagged in my external brainhive as well.) "People often say that the Open Source movement has a history of being hostile to all new people (true), so it's not a big deal and certainly doesn't mean they are anti-woman (false). First of all I would like to point out that if you're an asshole to everyone, it doesn't somehow give you a free pass, it means you are categorically an asshole. Second, it *does* mean that their attitude has the effect of being anti-woman (really, it has the effect of being anti-everyone-who's-not-a-white-straight-cis-ablebodied-man). Because any barrier will affect people more who have more barriers to hurdle. The less privilege you have, the more any particular barrier will set you back."

Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog

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• activism
• blogs
• culture
• equality
• faq
• feminism
• feminism101
• gender
• politics
• privilege
• resources
• women

Women's Rights | Change.org

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• blog
• feminism
• health
• humanrights
• news
• politics
• women
• womensrights

FAQ: What is “slut-shaming”? « Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog

• feminism
• sexuality

kaigou | damsel in transition

• anime
• exp
• fandom
• feminism
• manga
• meta
• nf

We all know (and likely loathe, at least given the posts I see go past from most of you) the damsel in distress: she does something stupid, gets captured/hurt, has to be saved by the hero, and usually ends up clinging to him. I've been browsing some of the manga that readers have classified (on reader-tagging database sites) as "strong female lead" or "strong female character", and I think we need an intermediary. Something like, "female character damselfied by the author", or "damsel with fighter tendencies," for a less anti-author spin on it.

Making a Necklace for the Harpy - It's time we talked about Bleach.

• bleach
• exp
• fandom
• feminism
• meta
• meta:singlefandom
• nf